Vulgate Bible

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1. A Latin translation of the Bible (see also Bible) made by the scholar Jerome, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, in the fourth century. This translation was the standard Bible of the Western world until the Reformation. Vulgate comes from a Latin word meaning “common,” because Jerome's translation used the Latin of everyday speech.

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Sarah Fiddyment and Matthew Collins of the University of York and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have now identified the signature biochemistry of the different species that perished to become 13th century pocket copies of the Vulgate Bible.

From The Guardian

The chart segmented the flow of each song, identifying the sequence of verses and bridge sections and effects, with notations for dynamics that read like mixtures of private band language and the Latin vulgate bible: “monolith,” “simil theremin,” “mater eius.”

From New York Times

They were separately published in a very small volume without date, each letter being accompanied with appropriate scriptural allusions taken from the Vulgate Bible.

From Project Gutenberg

In a Vulgate Bible, printed by him in 1544, he uses the A and C of the same alphabet, and also the following letters, with different subjects, viz.

From Project Gutenberg

Among these is the seventh-century MS. of the Vulgate Bible, written by Ceolfrid Abbot of Jarrow.

From Project Gutenberg